jack3726
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Would a PRO-163/164 work or do you have to get up into the PRO-197 range to pick them up. There is a big price difference between these two, all of these support rebanding and motorola.
FPL freqs and scanners ?
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FPL is primarily MDT dispatched these days. you need a digital scanner to listen to them as anything like a pro-107 will NOT work and i know because i have tried this many times.
The RR database has FPL trunked system freqs so check there first.
FPL is primarily MDT dispatched these days. you need a digital scanner to listen to them as anything like a pro-107 will NOT work and i know because i have tried this many times.
The RR database has FPL trunked system freqs so check there first.
FLA2760
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Florida Power and light aka Progress Energy is currently analog so yes your 163/164 should work, I monitor them from a 164. I saw in the RR database that the part of their system in Sarasota County is EDACS narrowband the 163/164 does not list narrowband capabilities in the specifications. Give it a try, in my area they are Motorola standard.
If the scanner does not support EDACS Narrowband, you still have a way of listening to FPL.
Program the frequencies as conventional and lock out the control channel. It won't show you the talkgroups or UIDs but you will hear all the talk just the same.
Keep in mind, you will have to unlock the previous days control channel and lock out the current day's control channel as the EDACS Narrowband Trunked System is setup to change control channels everyday or every couple of days. So, if a site has five channels, four of which are voice channels and one being the control channel, one day the control channel can be on channel 2, the next day it could be on channel 1, the next on channel 5.... Lock it out and unlock all others when that happens and you shouldn't miss anything. So, in a roundabout way, the 163/164 works for FPL listening.
If you want to see the talkgroups and UIDs then you need a scanner capable of EDACS Narrowband Trunk Tracking.
I hope this helps.
Program the frequencies as conventional and lock out the control channel. It won't show you the talkgroups or UIDs but you will hear all the talk just the same.
Keep in mind, you will have to unlock the previous days control channel and lock out the current day's control channel as the EDACS Narrowband Trunked System is setup to change control channels everyday or every couple of days. So, if a site has five channels, four of which are voice channels and one being the control channel, one day the control channel can be on channel 2, the next day it could be on channel 1, the next on channel 5.... Lock it out and unlock all others when that happens and you shouldn't miss anything. So, in a roundabout way, the 163/164 works for FPL listening.
If you want to see the talkgroups and UIDs then you need a scanner capable of EDACS Narrowband Trunk Tracking.
I hope this helps.
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FLA2760
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Thanks. I was not aware they were separate entities. I do the control channel lock out when use I my BC95XLT to monitor them and some other trunked radio systems, It is a nice little scanner.
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jack3726
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Thank you for the information, sounda like digital then.
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FPL in Miami is analog. Listening to them right now.
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FPL in Miami is analog. Listening to them right now.
Brevard and Indian River County sites are analog. Most of the calls are MDT as far as the exact details (addresses, phone numbers, etc.). You can still hear some traffic on the trunked system. They are most active on there after storms, when transformers and fuses on poles blow and power outages occur. I don't know about the larger counties.
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Before getting my PRO-106, I was doing the same thing. The PRO-106 (digital), GRE PSR-310 (analog only), and Uniden BC346XT (analog only) have EDACS Narrow capability. I am not sure about the other Uniden and later RS/GRE models.
I found it!
Florida Utility Companies - Trunked Systems
This has the freqs for FPL and it states on there that most calls are via MDT. I have tried to listen to them on an analog scanner but as soon as they key up, it goes garbled like a control channel.
MSS-Dave
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Just wanted to point out that Florida Power & Light is NOT Progress Energy. Lot of people confuse that still. Progress Energy used to be Florida Power. Now, depending who you talk to can be Progress Energy or Duke Power.
FP&L is mostly 900 MHz EDACS (GE-Net 900..) or at least it was. I know they were looking to go digital of some sort but budget constraints kept them buying surplus GE stuff to keep on the air. The only Motorola activity I'm aware of is the St Lucie Nuke plant but maybe they have added something.
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Florida Power & Light and Florida Power are two different companies. Florida Power is now known as Progress Energy Florida.
this is NOT correct.
Florida POWER and FPL are two different entities
Florida POWER became progress but FPL is still an active business and is NOT part of Progress energy
That is EXACTLY what I said.
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